Historic Antiques, Carved Jade and Mahogany, Collecting dust in an antiques store! "Good Luck Ship" explained by "Shu 2011"
A local antiques store stunned me with historic pieces collecting dust. Earlier, I had called these items "priceless", when a Flickr fan and contributor, "Shu 2011" advised me that she had photographed virtually the exact same items in her native China. And, they had a price roughly the same as the price I was shown in Stamford, Connecticut.
www.flickr.com/photos/shushutuan/
One of the items is an 8 foot long, 3 foot wide, carved jade "Dragon Boat", probably out of the Huangdi age, in my amateur opinion, made in the 1800s or early 1900s, but depicting the 200 BC era. It is intricate, delicately carved, solid jade as I can tell. It shows the ancient Greek era, Chinese maritime capabilities, of 200 to 300 foot long merchant boats that probably crossed the Pacific before the time of Christ. If you remember the legend, the Chinese actually sent a delegation to Rome, and the Romans I believe came back to see China, 1200 years before Marco Polo.
Note: The dragon head is a universal symbol, found all over the ancient and modern world, and actually found numerous times on the Temple of Quetzalcoatl at Teotihuacan, Mexico.
Also note, I am concerned that the longer this historic piece sits as it is, I am guessing that it could be "parted-out" making the full picture incomplete. I have added 3 out of 4 calligraphic Chinese symbols, found vertically displayed on one of the main sails, with an empty space for one jade symbolic, no longer there. This set of four symbols was translated by Dora of Shu 2011 as meaning "Good Luck", so now I have a name for the ship.
The second item is a 3/4 lifesize Shogun warrior on horseback, again 1800s vintage, or early 1900, carved wood, I believe, historically accurate to the symbologies on everything. In my amateur theories, I believe the Shogun were the "Genus of Shu", probably a Semitic tribe offshoot engaged in the Spice route of China, ending up in Japan.
And third of 10,000 items they have in the store, a jade carved pendulum clock, standing 5 feet tall, needs repair of course.
Why aren't these in a national museum like the Smithsonian? Or in Shanghai? Or in Tokyo?
Am I the only one going berserk over these historic sensations, gathering dust in a Stamford Connecticut antique and collectibles store?
The carvings are so intense and compact, my camera could not do justice to their intricacies.
Do yourself a favor, be your own treasure hunter. Visit your nearsest antiques store, see if you can't top these finds.
With my second posting, I am now identifying the location of these priceless antiques, that of United House Wrecking of Stamford, CT.
See also...
www.flickr.com/photos/10749411@N03/6374514889/in/photostream
www.unitedhousewrecking.com/antiques.htm
Regardless of everything I have learned, these items are still astonishing.
Historic Antiques, Carved Jade and Mahogany, Collecting dust in an antiques store! "Good Luck Ship" explained by "Shu 2011"
A local antiques store stunned me with historic pieces collecting dust. Earlier, I had called these items "priceless", when a Flickr fan and contributor, "Shu 2011" advised me that she had photographed virtually the exact same items in her native China. And, they had a price roughly the same as the price I was shown in Stamford, Connecticut.
www.flickr.com/photos/shushutuan/
One of the items is an 8 foot long, 3 foot wide, carved jade "Dragon Boat", probably out of the Huangdi age, in my amateur opinion, made in the 1800s or early 1900s, but depicting the 200 BC era. It is intricate, delicately carved, solid jade as I can tell. It shows the ancient Greek era, Chinese maritime capabilities, of 200 to 300 foot long merchant boats that probably crossed the Pacific before the time of Christ. If you remember the legend, the Chinese actually sent a delegation to Rome, and the Romans I believe came back to see China, 1200 years before Marco Polo.
Note: The dragon head is a universal symbol, found all over the ancient and modern world, and actually found numerous times on the Temple of Quetzalcoatl at Teotihuacan, Mexico.
Also note, I am concerned that the longer this historic piece sits as it is, I am guessing that it could be "parted-out" making the full picture incomplete. I have added 3 out of 4 calligraphic Chinese symbols, found vertically displayed on one of the main sails, with an empty space for one jade symbolic, no longer there. This set of four symbols was translated by Dora of Shu 2011 as meaning "Good Luck", so now I have a name for the ship.
The second item is a 3/4 lifesize Shogun warrior on horseback, again 1800s vintage, or early 1900, carved wood, I believe, historically accurate to the symbologies on everything. In my amateur theories, I believe the Shogun were the "Genus of Shu", probably a Semitic tribe offshoot engaged in the Spice route of China, ending up in Japan.
And third of 10,000 items they have in the store, a jade carved pendulum clock, standing 5 feet tall, needs repair of course.
Why aren't these in a national museum like the Smithsonian? Or in Shanghai? Or in Tokyo?
Am I the only one going berserk over these historic sensations, gathering dust in a Stamford Connecticut antique and collectibles store?
The carvings are so intense and compact, my camera could not do justice to their intricacies.
Do yourself a favor, be your own treasure hunter. Visit your nearsest antiques store, see if you can't top these finds.
With my second posting, I am now identifying the location of these priceless antiques, that of United House Wrecking of Stamford, CT.
See also...
www.flickr.com/photos/10749411@N03/6374514889/in/photostream
www.unitedhousewrecking.com/antiques.htm
Regardless of everything I have learned, these items are still astonishing.